Thursday, March 21, 2013

4B Judicial Branch Q and A

1. What are the different types of court cases? What are some examples?  How do you know if you have a case?  When a court case is decided, how do you know why they made a decision?
2. Who is directly/indirectly involved in court cases? In what ways?
3.How is the court system i the US set up?  How does federalism help us understand the structure and appeals process?
4.  Who is on the SC?  What are the prerequisites for becoming a justice?  How are they selected?  What dot hey typically have in common?
5. What does it mean to be a conservative justice?  liberal justice?  What is meant by judicial independence?
6.  Why would the SC look at a case?   What has to happen for a case to be put on the SC docket?  Who represents the government in a case?

2 comments:

Number 2 said...

http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/resources/a4a559df-b747-4e7e-ba26-e16b10c9530b/courtroom_layout.jpg

Unknown said...

^That^ is an Australian government resource. Hence the url ".vic.gov.au" Do not use to investigate the American court system.